A ‘pathetic life’: Meghan McCain escalates her pushback against Trump

Meghan McCain eulogizes her father during the funeral service at the National Cathedral for Sen. John McCain. (Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post)

Meghan McCain said Monday that President Donald Trump is leading "a pathetic life" as she escalated her pushback against Trump's weekend attacks on Twitter against her late father.

"He spends his weekend obsessing over great men, because he knows it, and I know it, and all of you know it, he will never be a great man," McCain, a co-host of ABC's "The View," said of Trump during Monday's episode.

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She remembered how before his death nearly seven months ago from brain cancer, John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona, would spend time with her and others in the family cooking, hiking and fishing on the weekends.

Upon seeing derogatory tweets about her father over the weekend, Meghan McCain said she thought "your life is spent on your weekends not with your family, not with your friends, but obsessing, obsessing over great men you could never live up to."

"That tells you everything you need to know about his pathetic life right now," she added. "I genuinely feel bad for his family. I can't imagine having a father that does this on the weekends."

In a tweet on Saturday, Trump quoted former independent counsel Ken Starr, who criticized John McCain on a recent Fox News show. In the segment, Starr referred to reports that a McCain ally had shared with the media parts of a dossier that allegedly included information linking Trump to the Russian government.

Trump piled on in his Saturday night tweet, criticizing McCain - as he has repeatedly done on the campaign trail and in interviews - for his vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act in 2017.